![]() ![]() ![]() ("It had taken Walter several years to admit to himself that he couldn't go on indefinitely selling Lilliputian Coke bottles and microscop ic toilet-roll dowels.") In this new community, he will have to keep his he ad down, a stance that has long suited him, because he prefers to hold one memory of lost intimacy and perfection in high, private relief. Having spent years working in a dollhouse shop in New York and e ngaging in that city's ready sexual excitement, Walter finally returns to h is Midwestern roots, accepting a teaching job in Otten, Wisconsin-a place that might have little to recommend it save its proximity to his family's s ummer home. "If life for Walter was comp osed in part of confusion, shame and deception, the ballet was order, digni ty and forthright beauty." In 1995, at 38, nothing has turned out as he had expected. As a teenager in Oak Ridge, Illinois, Walter McCloud is desperate for adven ture, hoping for love and success as a dancer. ![]()
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